The FA-37 Talon from the 2005 film Stealth may have been fictional, but its design wasn’t entirely imaginary. This video traces the jet’s roots to a real Northrop patent filed in the late 1990s, which ...
Stratolaunch, builder of the world's largest airplane, flew a prototype of its planned air-launched Talon hypersonic vehicle for the first time on Friday (Oct. 28). The massive Roc carrier plane, ...
Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March, the ...